Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar interested in experimental performance on stage and on screen.
Raised in Rio de Janeiro, Tatinge Nascimento has performed in Europe, North and South America. Directing highlights include the devised dance-theater piece Reasons for Moving at The Southern Theater in Minneapolis and Pornographic Angel, her published dramatic adaptation of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues’ short stories at The Ohio Theater in NYC.
On film, she directed the documentary Reasons for Moving: immigrant stories from the Mississippi Flyway, and dance on camera shorts The Colonial Table and 88. Flesh Red.
The author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation and Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge, both from Routledge, her articles and essays on theater and dance appear in national and international anthologies, journals, and trade publications.
Tatinge Nascimento held residences at Bogliasco Center in Italy, Caldera AiR, Trinity College Dublin, Mellon Foundation (South Africa), Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities, and Freie Universität-Berlin. She has received grants from the Consulate General of Brazil, Metropolitan Regional Art Council, MN State Arts Board, and MN Humanities Center, to cite a few, in support of her stage productions and films.